LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ceremonies
New lifeboats named and dedicated Mudeford -Atlantic 21 Ken DerhamSaturday, 2 February will long be remembered in Mudeford as the day when the station's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat was named Ken Derham. by her namesake. The day was cold and...
Category: Inaugurations
Lifeboat Services
North Eastern Division Cargo vessel sinks HUMBER COASTGUARD informed Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan of Humber lifeboat station at 2357 on Tuesday February 13 that the Panamanian motor vessel Revi was in distress 30 miles north east of...
Category: Services
Coastal Life
coAstAL LiFe Red sky in the morning In the 1979 Fastnet race, 15 lives were lost when yachts were caught in hurricane force winds and what the weathermen called ‘phenomenal’ seas. Bethany Hope investigates how 21st century weather...
Category: Articles
Travelscope-1
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Category: Advertisement
The Late Queen Alexandra
BY the death of Queen Alexandra on 20th November, 1925, the Institution, loses one of its three Royal Patrons, Queen Alexandra had been associated with the work of the Institution for forty-two years, It was in 1883, as Princess of Wales,...
Category: Obituaries
Gallant Service Rendered By the Holy Island Lifeboat "Grace Darling" on the 13th February, 1896
ON the morning of the 13th February all the Holy Island fishing-boats, with one exception, were out fishing, when the sea I rose rapidly, and at 9 o'clock the Rev. D. Bryson, Vicar of Holy Island and Honorary Secretary of the Holy Island...
Category: Articles
Bottom Left - Norwegian Historic Lifeboat, Colin Archer,
Bottom left - Norwegian historic lifeboat, Colin Archer, moors up alongside Waveney class, 44-007.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Honours for lifesavers
Congratulations to the RNLI volunteers and staff who were recognised in this year’s New Year
Honours, for their contribution to saving lives at sea. MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire):
Richard Spindler a...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 6th April, 1865. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., r.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Category: Committee
Polar Prince
Cullercoats, Northumberland.—Shortly before 6 A.M. on the 23rd August, 1938, the Seaton Sluice coastguard reported a trawler ashore just south of St.
Mary's Island. A gentle southerly breeze was blowing, with a slight...